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With the ultra-light and ultra-small DSMobile USB portable Scanner from Pentax

Dec 28, 2006 08:19 GMT  ·  By
  

We live in a world that's becoming more and more mobile by the minute, and that's one of the reasons why an increasing number of people are starting to take their whole office on the road. So, in order to make life a little easier for these people, Pentax has launched a very interesting USB portable scanner, the Dsmobile, that combines a very small form factor with technical and performance capabilities usually found only in flatbeds.

Thus, the device measures only 39.5 x 49.0 x 282.0 mm and weighs just around 340 grams, which makes it extremely portable (heck, I've had cell phones that weighed more than that). Moreover, the DSMobile USB is capable of scanning just about anything you might feed into it, from business cards to sheets of paper in B4 format, its 24-bit true color system being capable of 8-bit grayscale and B&W with a standard optical resolution of 300dpi (dots per inch). Unlike other devices from the scanner's family, the DSMobile USB uses a Contact Image Sensor (CIS) instead of the traditional Charge Coupled Device (CCD), due to the fact that CIS offers some pretty interesting advantages over CCD, as for example smaller dimensions (20% smaller, to be exact), a lower weight, less power consumption and fewer chances for mechanical breakdown.

Here are some of the other important features and specifications this mobile scanner has to offer:

- scanning resolution: hardware optical 300 dpi, software interpolated 9600 dpi; - scanning modes: 36-bit internally, outputs 24-bit true color, 8-bit gray scale, 1-bit black and white (bi-level); - scanning area: maximum 216 mm x 356mm; - scanning speed: 12ms/line color, 3ms/line B/W; - paper thickness: 0.1mm - 0.66 mm; - powered directly via USB, no external adapter required.

The DSMobile USB device could be a pretty interesting solution for all you "mobile" people out there, considering what it has to offer, and you if you want a scanner that's both small and offers high quality results, this is the way to go.

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